one's opposite number

one's opposite number
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    He got on well, too, with Doctor Milligan, his opposite number and it was not long before he found himself adopting Milligan's method of dealing with the regular patients (A J. Cronin). It is true that our man in Moscow knows only a smattering of Russian, while his opposite number in London is fluent in English (The Sunday Times)

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